NetVision Dialer from Carmina Enterprises

[Ralph Caswellrccoffee]

Last night or early this morning, I downloaded updates
for all my anti-malware programs for my new Win XP/Home.
I have installed:
1. Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Plus with Ad-Watch(paid)
2. Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta 1 (free)
3. Webroot Spy Sweeper(paid)
4. Bill P. Studio Win Patrol (for cookies)(free)
5. Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005 (paid)
6. PC Tool Spyware Doctor (free version so I cannot
remove anything without paying $30-$40 but I do know
where the problem(s) is/are).

I ran scans offline on my computer this morning.
Lavasoft AASEP found the usual MRUs. No problem there.
All the other programs found nothing EXCEPT Spyware
Doctor. There were two third-party cookies (I used Win
Patrol to delete the specific cookies) BUT there was
NetVision Dialer which attempts to dial high-cost phone
numbers using a modem. It was at C>Program Files>AOL
9.0> and the file was named accdef.exe. I had immunized
my computer using Spyware Doctor. So, I found accdef.exe
in my AOL 9.0 file. It controls the settings for AOL. I
deleted it, ran Spyware Doctor and NOTHING.

I sent an e-mail explaining this to (e-mail address removed)
so that they would be aware of NetVision. They sent me a
nice reply and said that it would be forwarded to the
product team but suggested that I put a notice here to
let everyone who looks know that a problem exists and how
I handled it.

Good luck,

 

[AndyManchesta]

Thanks Bill ,

I've never used SpywareDoctor myself so my first thought
with the False Positive was it might be a way to make
people buy the product as there isnt many Antispy
scanners around that will not offer a free trial but I
thought I better repost after giving it a quick test and
tone down my "dump it for a reliable scanner" comment as
it detected alot of junk when I just infected the test
machine, it will not remove them unless I pay but Its
good to see them detected in the scan.

Andy

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm waiting 'til I can see a comparison between the final product of what
Sunbelt currently has in beta, and Microsoft Antispyware's final version.

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[Bill Sanderson]

That's another aspect of it that I wouldn't like--it'd be nice if they could
figure out how to provide a demo that would do one free cleaning--I'm sure
there'd be a lot of folks that wouldn't buy, but a pretty good number that
would, as well.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Hello Ralph. I've been replying to Andy because your post didn't show in my
Outlook Express until now.

I agree with Andy--I think this is probably a false positive on the part of
Spyware Doctor. I wouldn't hold that against them--false positives are a
problem for all antispyware apps--but I would get in touch with them and try
to get it clarified with their support mechanisms.

I'm very pleased that the Microsoft security folks sent you here--that's
good advice, I believe.